Therapeutic management of a cow affected with anaplasmosis complicated with pneumonia

Abstract

A five-year-old cross-breed cow with high temperature, pale mucous membrane, and associated clinical symptoms like dyspnea, extended neck, grunting sound of lungs during auscultation, tachycardia with high respiration rate, apparently swollen pre-scapular lymph node, drooling of saliva, and lacrimation was admitted at SAQ Teaching Veterinary Hospital of CVASU.

Microscopic examination of the peripheral blood smear revealed numerous A. marginale organisms at the margin of the erythrocytes. Low hemoglobin level (5.6 g/dl) with normal PCV (39%) and high erythrocyte count (13.63 million/cumm) 13.63x10°/ul were observed on hematological analysis. The cow was treated with long-acting Oxytetracycline @20mg/kg body weight intramuscularly at 48hr interval for 5 doses with hematinics amino acid and vitamin supplement. Clinical signs started to subside within 5 days post-treatment, and complete recovery was observed within 14 days of post-treatment.